What is an Application Project?

According to the information in the Introduction, Application Designer runs as a web application or as part of a web application inside a servlet engine.

If you have larger projects and consequently have a high number of layouts and adapter classes, then you want to structure your development activities in a better way. For this reason, a project management exists that you can use to separate your project's resources across so-called application projects.

An application project is represented in the file system by a single directory. It includes:

  • XML layout definitions.

  • HTML files which are generated from the layout definitions.

  • Required images or required "normal" HTML files.

  • Adapter classes.

  • Files holding the information on how to translate text IDs into readable words in a language-dependent way.

  • Help files.

You can (and should) arrange your application projects to be self-containing units.